The annual auction is the biggest fur-buying event in the state. Trappers brought bundles of pelts of more than a dozen types of animals — from raccoons to possums to coyotes. Some sold glands in ...

Mink is by far the most popular farmed fur, and Chinese minks dominate the market. In 2014, the country produced 35 million pelts, according to the International Fur Federation.

Someone scaled the fence at Fort Gibraltar after the site closed for the day on Monday and made off with more than 100 animal furs.

Fur farming causes immense suffering and pain to captive minks, rabbits and other animals and creates ecological harms through manure production and the toxic chemical processing of pelts. Fur ...

With fur out of fashion, Indigenous trappers are endangered Falling prices, rising costs, and anti-fur sentiment jeopardize a centuries-old way of life.

Tragically, 100 animals either died or had to be euthanized. Vogt explained that the animals' pelts are used for clothing, and their urine is utilized as a home rabbit deterrent and as a chemical ...

Trapping and hunting animals to harvest their fur is one of the oldest professions; and when it comes to what happens to the fur, very little has changed throughout history.

Mink fur, dark brown, deep, silky, lustrous, rates with silver fox as most popular all-round fur. It takes 75 to 100 pelts. which now average $5 to $20 apiece, to make a coat.

New Jersey's fur hunters trapped nearly 20,000 animals last year that was worth about $120,000 at fur auctions.

Los Angeles will become the biggest city in the United States to ban the sale of animal fur, under a new law backed Tuesday by the City Council.

What Those Animal Pelts Tell Us About the Future of the Far Right The seditionist frontiersmen of the Capitol riot certainly meant to send a message through their clothing. But what was it?